How many ads do those 75 million people see? i honestly haven't had a hotmail account in ages, for there's no sensible email addresses left, but IMHO if you have a market of 75 million people logging in, then the ad revenue must be tremendous.
that's a very sad statistic. We have similar issues in Canada with our native population. 20% infant mortality rate on our reserves. That statistic alone is very disheartening.
We've seen treaties come internationally like the Nuclear Weapons Proliferation treaty, and the Kyoto accord. Both have been very progressive, and both are a very good thing for this world, as was shown by the amount of countries that have opted into these treaties. Yet America has shown the world they prefer to not participate.
The disrespect for international treaties was further shown with Bush's invasion of Iraq, which was defiant of the UN.
It has affected me in Canada as well. America has signed into GATT, and NAFTA, yet continues to place levies on Canadian softwood exports to America, defiant of the rulings of these international bodies, which are governed by the international treaties America has signed.
These four defiant issues show the world that America whishes not to be part of the international community, and choses to go it alone.
I'd like to know if Sen. Kerry is going to be interested in revisiting these treaties and showing the rest of the world that America is again part of the international community, or if he continues to follow in Bush's legacy, and tear up international treaties and continue to go their own direction.
No, we're all cheering for AMD for a number of reasons.
Their decision to support 32-bit mode in their x86 64 bit platform was a wise decisions and all of us knew that.
Furthermore, AMD keeps forcing Intel to innovate. As long as AMD is around, CPU's will get faster and better and do more per cycle.
Without AMD, we'd not have good competition, and Intel could comfortably cut their R&D costs to turn a bigger profit - their only rival would be PowerPC, and it's not a x86 platform. Let's not forget, Intel is first responsible to its shareholders.
Furthermore without competition, rest assured we'd already have DRM shoved down our throats too.
Sadly, IMHO that'll be America's demise... Presidents who aren't interested in bettering the overall position of America by reducing their debt.
GW Bush is proof of concept. The levels he's run the debt to are attrocious. Servicing that debt and paying it down would ultimately result in lower taxes, but it would be at the cost of re-election.
No offence, but that's stupid reasoning. The founders of American democracy did a lot of things right, but they really screwed up with the term limit. Why not have a President who's looking out for long term job security? Clinton was good, why vote him out?
The way I see it, the President spends the first four years trying to win a second term, and the next four years doing everything to not have a vote of no confindence, but not giving a damn other than that.
The best thing, IMHO for America is to have a persidency with a long-term outlook for the nation, and to have the political will to implement it. No one wants to raise taxes to deal with rising debt. It's political suicide. Yet in the long run, lower debt means you spend less money servicing debt, and more money doing stuff like providing health care.
But then you have the Dell machines that come with POS McAfee pre-installed. I just helped out a family member with a new computer and set them up wtih FF, and they can't update McAfee because it uses a goddamn ActiveX control.
Luckily I moved them to AVG anyway. McAfee is just bloatware crap anyway. </angry rant>
Why are all the spyware programs written for Windows rather than Mac or Linux.
Simple market share dude.
Businesses (shady or not) look at the cost/benefit analysis of writing this stuff. The benefit is higher when you write the stuff for windows than any other platform.
swell as literally hundreds of advanced functions that almost no other search engines posses..
Such as the ability to index the crappiest sites in the world that provide no vaild content?
Google bombing has rendered Google a pain in the ass for a lot of seraches now. Try searching for product reviews. The highest ranking pages are simply pages that consolidate links of other revies (and bombard you with advertising).
There needs to be a way to filter those crap sites off of Google somehow.
If this practice continues, all it takes is for another search engine that comes along and filters that crap out by default to dethrone them.
I love the fact that google gives the chance to view pdf's as text... I hate waiting for Acrobat to load - IMHO it's a POS technology that no business should have used.
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In America, the average person spent $10,000 on health care insurance. Now, the average Canadian family pays $150 a month or so. $1800 a year.
Yeah, I'd say we're doing pretty good.
Hehe Ooops.. Saw that I missed the "y" on Totally... lol... Oh well... Was being cheeky is all, but in slashdot moderators' defence, it was only +4 :)
How many ads do those 75 million people see? i honestly haven't had a hotmail account in ages, for there's no sensible email addresses left, but IMHO if you have a market of 75 million people logging in, then the ad revenue must be tremendous.
I can see the reply to this coming:
:)
In Soviet Russia, MP3's encode YOU!
Sincerely, annoyed with these posts now
The Heuristics in Norton already catch this. There was a download earlier, inside a zip file, that Norton deleted right away. Very impressive.
Mine too... Totall impressive. What's even more impressive is the ability to use standard html tags on slashdot :)
Yes, but you don't need to use KDE to run Koffice AFAIK... Just Qt...
Use something like Xfce or IceWM if you need something for slower, older computers.
lol thanks dude! moderators are smoking something good this time... I can buy "off topic" or "over rated" but flamebait?
KDE sucks :)
Way to get yourself modded down as a troll
C'mon. Pi is an irrational number
... And until China stops pointing their guns at Taiwan, and continues to occupy Tibet, IMHO they are a country no one should do business with.
WFT? How does this get modded down as a troll? I said nothing in here that's trolling.
I love slashdot moderators sometimes. Disagree with a post? mod it down as a troll!
that's a very sad statistic. We have similar issues in Canada with our native population. 20% infant mortality rate on our reserves. That statistic alone is very disheartening.
We've seen treaties come internationally like the Nuclear Weapons Proliferation treaty, and the Kyoto accord. Both have been very progressive, and both are a very good thing for this world, as was shown by the amount of countries that have opted into these treaties. Yet America has shown the world they prefer to not participate.
The disrespect for international treaties was further shown with Bush's invasion of Iraq, which was defiant of the UN.
It has affected me in Canada as well. America has signed into GATT, and NAFTA, yet continues to place levies on Canadian softwood exports to America, defiant of the rulings of these international bodies, which are governed by the international treaties America has signed.
These four defiant issues show the world that America whishes not to be part of the international community, and choses to go it alone.
I'd like to know if Sen. Kerry is going to be interested in revisiting these treaties and showing the rest of the world that America is again part of the international community, or if he continues to follow in Bush's legacy, and tear up international treaties and continue to go their own direction.
No, we're all cheering for AMD for a number of reasons.
Their decision to support 32-bit mode in their x86 64 bit platform was a wise decisions and all of us knew that.
Furthermore, AMD keeps forcing Intel to innovate. As long as AMD is around, CPU's will get faster and better and do more per cycle.
Without AMD, we'd not have good competition, and Intel could comfortably cut their R&D costs to turn a bigger profit - their only rival would be PowerPC, and it's not a x86 platform. Let's not forget, Intel is first responsible to its shareholders.
Furthermore without competition, rest assured we'd already have DRM shoved down our throats too.
I'd much rather have IBM servers than HP servers. IMHO IBM does all the little things right, and has IMHO better linux support than HP if you need it.
Sadly, IMHO that'll be America's demise ... Presidents who aren't interested in bettering the overall position of America by reducing their debt.
GW Bush is proof of concept. The levels he's run the debt to are attrocious. Servicing that debt and paying it down would ultimately result in lower taxes, but it would be at the cost of re-election.
he limit is ten years in office
No offence, but that's stupid reasoning. The founders of American democracy did a lot of things right, but they really screwed up with the term limit. Why not have a President who's looking out for long term job security? Clinton was good, why vote him out?
The way I see it, the President spends the first four years trying to win a second term, and the next four years doing everything to not have a vote of no confindence, but not giving a damn other than that.
The best thing, IMHO for America is to have a persidency with a long-term outlook for the nation, and to have the political will to implement it. No one wants to raise taxes to deal with rising debt. It's political suicide. Yet in the long run, lower debt means you spend less money servicing debt, and more money doing stuff like providing health care.
What kind of tree is your favourite one to hug?
But then you have the Dell machines that come with POS McAfee pre-installed. I just helped out a family member with a new computer and set them up wtih FF, and they can't update McAfee because it uses a goddamn ActiveX control.
Luckily I moved them to AVG anyway. McAfee is just bloatware crap anyway.
</angry rant>
Why are all the spyware programs written for Windows rather than Mac or Linux.
Simple market share dude.
Businesses (shady or not) look at the cost/benefit analysis of writing this stuff. The benefit is higher when you write the stuff for windows than any other platform.
It's probably going to be as effective as the CANSPAM act.
How are they going to nail people in Russia and China?
Dpends how long the engine sits for. IIRC, it can sit overnight and not lose all the oil from the cylinder wall.
swell as literally hundreds of advanced functions that almost no other search engines posses..
Such as the ability to index the crappiest sites in the world that provide no vaild content?
Google bombing has rendered Google a pain in the ass for a lot of seraches now. Try searching for product reviews. The highest ranking pages are simply pages that consolidate links of other revies (and bombard you with advertising).
There needs to be a way to filter those crap sites off of Google somehow.
If this practice continues, all it takes is for another search engine that comes along and filters that crap out by default to dethrone them.
I love the fact that google gives the chance to view pdf's as text... I hate waiting for Acrobat to load - IMHO it's a POS technology that no business should have used.